The Prince Quotes

“I don’t believe in ghosts and neither should you, Kingsley.”
”Why not? I’ve been in love with a ghost for thirty years.”
Kingsley strolled over to the armchair and sat on the ottoman between the other man’s knees. Soren narrowed his eyes at him.
“The body’s not even cold yet. Eleanor’s been gone one day and you’re already trying to get me into bed again?”
”Again?” Kingsley laughed and rolled his eyes. “Always. Are you surprised?”
Soren shrugged. “Not really.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Prince

“His name is Spanks for Nothing. It’s destiny. We belong together.” -Nora”
― Tiffany Reisz

“Wesley looked down at her and Nora could barely meet his brown eyes, which bored into her with the fiery love of a guardian angel. God probably had eyes like Wesley's.....anyone who looked into them wanted to immediately apologize for any and all sins ever committed.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Prince

“In general you must either pamper people or destroy them; harm them just a little and they’ll hit back; harm them seriously and they won’t be able to. So if you’re going to do people harm, make sure you needn’t worry about their reaction.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Beauty is vain. It appears and like the wind, it's gone”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Raven

“[...] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality”
― Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

“We try to touch the stars, but we always fall back to earth.”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Prince

“Beauty is vain. It appears and, like the wind, it's gone”
― Sylvain Reynard, The Raven

“If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.”
― Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

“مصوري المناظر الطبيعية ينزلون إلي الوديان ليتمكنوا من رؤية السهول والوديان. ولذلك فمن الضروري أن تكون أميرا حتي تعرف طبيعة شعبك, كما أنه يجب أن تكون أحد الرعية أيضا كي تعرف الحقائق المتعلقة بالأمراء.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“[...] Porque así como aquellos que dibujan se colocan abajo, en el llano, para considerar la naturaleza de los montes y de los lugares elevados y, para considerar la de los bajos, se colocan en lo alto, sobre los montes, igualmente para conocer bien la naturaleza de los pueblos, es necesario ser príncipe, y para conocer bien la de los príncipes, es necesario ser del pueblo.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“على المرء أن يكون ثعلبا ليعيش الفخاخ المنصوبة له و أن يكون أسدا ليرهب الذئاب”
― Nicolo Machiavelli

“AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A wise prince must devise ways by which his citizens are always and in all circumstances dependent on him and on his authority; and then they will always be faithful to him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Everyone sees what you appear to be; few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“When brutality is the only option left, it is holy.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“From what Iliza told me about her father, he sounded like the kind of guy who used The Prince as a parenting book. That’s to say he didn’t parent his children so much as he governed them.”
― Sean Norris

“Before all else, be armed.”
― Niccolò Machiavelliolo